Laura Rozen: Source Confirms Chalabi Suspected of Passing "Signals" Intel

For anyone following the story, this is HUGE! Thanks to salin for bringing this Laura Rozen's blog to my attention. Rozen is right on top of the story and is keeping her readers right there with her.


http://www.warandpiece.com/


Just got a very interesting unsolicited call from an occasional contact who knows some of these players pretty well. Someone one would more than expect to be extremely friendly to their positions as well. And he told me that:

1) The charges against Chalabi passing highly sensitive US intelligence to Iranian intelligence are true.

2) It involves a piece or pieces of signals intelligence. Intelligence involving how the US listens to Iranian communications, who it taps, bugging, etc.

3) The evidence of Chalabi's intelligence breach came to the US government from a European government. The proof was given to the US by a European government/intelligence agency.

The timing of Tony Blair's visit with Bush in Washington April 16, 2004 is looking more and more interesting. Since mid-April seems to be the time that decisively turned the White House against Chalabi. Made it turn on a dime.

Oh. That's bad.

That's probably as bad as exposing Valerie Plame and her network.

More likely, it means we won't be getting any good intelligence out of Iran for the next few years until we come up with other ways of obtaining it.

It's the equivalent of telling someone, "psst! your phone is being tapped, here's what they've found out, and here's how they did it."

Some of the information was obtained directly by assetts and passed on and then there's the assetts who install devices etc. that may have been exposed...

That he passed the infor to Bush who turned on Chalabi because of this?

I was under the impression the whole Chalabi raid took the admin. by surprise and that it was handled independently of the usual channels.

That Europe is pressuring Blair and Blair is pressuring Bush. If Blair made Bush turn on a dime, then the evidence must be very compelling.

In fact, according to The Clinton Wars, it was Blumenthal who introduced Clinton and Blair. I wonder if Sidney and Blair have spoken about this subject.

do you believe it? they were caught with their pants down AGAIN...trusting in an Iranian spy - and the Europeans had to tell us about it???????????????????

WTF???????????????? why are we paying Tenent a salary?

and...Chalabi has the proof somewhere in an undisclosed location that proves he put the sting on old Georgie!

because he had been telling them exactly what they wanted to hear. (Or is it because he didn't tell others what the Bushists didn't want him to tell?)

on his most recent visit, that outlined Chalabi's dealings with Iran...right after that..the raid took place.

and Abdullah's to the raid?

And Richard Perle thinks a smear campaign from CIA and DIA is going on? :eyes:

Right after 911 Rumsfeld and the Bush regime started to "privatize" NSA and "modernize" their operations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/29/politics/29CHAL.html?pagewanted=prin...

Influential outside advisers to the Bush administration who support the Iraqi exile leader Ahmad Chalabi are pressing the White House to stop what one has called a "smear campaign" against Mr. Chalabi, whose Baghdad home and offices were ransacked last week in an American-supported raid.

Last Saturday, several of these Chalabi supporters said, a small delegation of them marched into the West Wing office of Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, to complain about the administration's abrupt change of heart about Mr. Chalabi and to register their concerns about the course of the war in Iraq. The group included Richard N. Perle, the former chairman of a Pentagon advisory group, and R. James Woolsey, director of central intelligence under President Bill Clinton.

Members of the group, who had requested the meeting, told Ms. Rice that they were incensed at what they view as the vilification of Mr. Chalabi, a favorite of conservatives who is now central to an F.B.I. investigation into who in the American government might have given him highly classified information that he is suspected of turning over to Iran.

Mr. Chalabi has denied that he provided Iran with any classified information.

The session with Ms. Rice was one sign of the turmoil that Mr. Chalabi's travails have produced within an influential corner of Washington, where Mr. Chalabi is still seen as a potential leader of Iraq.

Article later states Newt Gingrich was also there.

*Seems that Chalabi played a whole lot of people in the US, Iran and Israel. The con game involves a lot of cons, eh?

"There is a smear campaign under way, and it is being perpetrated by the C.I.A. and the D.I.A. and a gaggle of former intelligence officers who have succeeded in planting these stories, which are accepted with hardly any scrutiny," Mr. Perle, a leading conservative, said in an interview.